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goodgoalie | 22:34 Wed 26th Apr 2017 | Film, Media & TV
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Anyone still buying a newspaper on a weekday? I know it's cheaper if you subscribe (which they desperately want you to do), but now The Times and Telegraph are both £1.60 and The Guardian an eye-watering £2, the only paper I would ever buy now Mon - Fri is The i, and even that I don't buy every day, as I used to
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Gave up on Sunday papers 10 years ago when I realised that most of the stuff went into the bin unread. Stopped weekly papers 5 years ago. At the time the Times was £1 and I only really bought it for the crossword. The only time I buy them now is when in hospital, purely for relief from boredom.
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I think a lot of ABers buy newspapers for just the crosswords and such!
We subscribe to 2 papers. I read one - The Times - and a couple of bits of the other one. Most of the other one gets chucked in the recycling, as OH doesn't always have time to read it. We get a big pile of Sunday papers - some of them are complete rags - mostly for staff at work.

If it was up to me I'd get the Times for general reading and puzzles and the Sunday Telegraph for the EV crossword.
I only buy our local weekly newspaper ( just in case someone I know/knew has died)
I think they're all feeling the pinch now that a lot of people read the news online these days. I had a call this evening from the Times telling me that they'd put their price up but were offering loyal readers such as myself a special loyalty deal with pounds off a monthly subscription. Now I haven't bought the Times for years, and never with a subscription so how did they think I was a "loyal reader"?
Cancelled daily papers years ago, now only have Saturday and Sunday papers delivered to keep the paperboy/girl in work and the puzzles to keep Mrs B busy while I catch up on the world events.
I remember in the 60s all papers were 3d apart from the Guardian @ 4d and the Times a whopping big 5d.
When I had a paperround in the early 60's no one had big papers on a week day and the Sundays did not weigh a ton because of all the advertising rubbish.
Haven't bought a regular paper for decades. But I seem to recall that the broadsheets were always quite expensive. Have they gone up in real terms over the last half century ? At least they were all serious news.
Actually, just checked. Telegraph was 3d in 1965. That would be 23p now. I suspect it must have been a lot thinner then.
mail for crossies and suduko also Mail on Sunday..they get read cover to cover, but Sunday paper takes a few days !
Always buy the Guardian on Saturday and the Observer on Sunday. That's £5.00 a week. I really must subscribe.

I might buy the 'i' occasionally, if I'm out and about.
if I was not hooked on the puzzles pages I wouldn't bother buying any papers Tilly !
I buy the Guardian most days, although not usually on a Friday, when it appears to be full of stuff about pop music. But it still has the most reliable in-depth coverage of news available to me. Stopped doing the prize crossword 3 years ago, after winning it twice....it still has the same crappy prizes ! Anyway, its not the same since Araucaria passed away !

I get the i paper on a Saturday, mainly but not exclusively for the crossword. It has to be the best value newspaper around today. I never buy the other tabloids though...what would be the point ?

I took the Sunday Times for over 40 years until last summer, but eventually gave it up, as it has gone steadily down-market for ages. I now get the Observer, the worlds oldest Sunday newspaper. Good arts coverage, without all the bits of the Sunday Times that I never read.

If I am somewhere that doesn't have the Guardian, ie, in the sticks !, than I will buy the Times under sufferance.

For obvious reasons, I have never taken the Daily Mail !
I read them online.

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